national correspondent. jon, president obama says he wants a big deal on budgets and debt. he won the battle for public opinion. he won a second term while congressional approval continues to be super low. is there something more he could be doing to end the small thinking about big problems that has become the norm in our nation's capital? >> he still wants the grand bargain he's been talking about for several years. this past week he came out and said we need another temporary fix. the term sequester is essentially a fancy word for the president and congress not doing their jobs. you laid it out pretty clearly. the president is late submitting his own budget. so he's part of the problem, too. but he does have the upper hand in the public opinion right now. but republicans are very wary. they think the president just wants more revenue and modest cuts, but he won't do the big structural things to medicare, to social security that are necessary for any part of grand bargain. we're in the game of chicken. another thing is happening, pollsters say every time we do this, consumer confide

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work there but left facebook in 2007 in order to work for the barack obama campaign. that was something that was anything but a sure thing. it was something that was consistent with a kind of things that chris coons has been talking about then and ever since which was trying to live a life that was going to have a genuine impact. a direct, positive impact on the world. i think are the words you have used. less than a year ago, he purchased control of the venerable -- a publication of the new republic, also in failing health, and has in the months made an awful lot of dust and cause an awful lot of interest because he made himself publisher and editor in chief, but he is actively engaged in reshaping it and has clear ambitions to make "the new republic" something among the most influential and most important magazines in the country. he is serious about high-quality journalism. that is the thing he talks about. but his focus is not just about digital technology. he is taking the venerable institution and journalism and looking at them informed by his deep knowledge of digital technology

agency so obviously drones are becoming more prevalent but on the same day that the obama administration released the drone memo that has stirred up so much conversation a small virginia city of charlottesville passed a resolution banning the use of drones against its. forty three thousand residents for at least two years the resident which was resolution which was brought on by a peace activist david swanson called on the state of virginia and the entire country to follow its example the charlottesville resolution says quote the federal government and the commonwealth of virginia has thus far failed to provide reasonable legal residence restrictions on the use of drones within the u.s. and police departments throughout the country have begun implementing drone technology absent any guidance or guidelines from lawmakers now this resolution is mostly seen a symbolic after all the city does not plan on getting rid of aircrafts that have already been licensed out nor does it have the power to prevent federal use of drones in its air space but it is proof that one small town i

read the report in it's full entirety. >> u.s. companies fighting back against president obama's new health care law. financial times reporting a few employers considering cutting hours of workers so they are not qualified as fulltime workers, rather than in insuring their staff. and other things, paying the penalty instead of paying to in sure. we could have seen this coming, couldn't we? >> there's gambling in casablanca, tyler. i can't believe it. look, remember when they started prescription drug plan for elderly seniors. before medicare didn't cover that. part d. do you know what a good chunk of the cost was? the government wrote checks to corporations so they would not dump seniors from retirement plans if they had been covering medicine already. this was so predicted, chronicle of a big gap in the plan foretold. >> eamon, many people out there believe after all this could end up with fewer people covered than more people covered. i don't know if you subscribe to that but it's an argument out there. >> this is such a big and sprawling new law, hard to they will what the uninten

obama is a highly partisan democrat bent on lib ram agenda or a centrist searching for compromise. it's still early in his second term, but he's recently made moves that seem to answer the question. obama could easily choose a partisan strategy that would be politically effective. don't make deals with the republicans on immigration or entitlement reform and go into the 2014 congressional elections with those problems still alive. with no deal, democrats could campaign as the guardians of medicare and advocates of immigration reform, both electoral winners. that's why some democratic senators have begun to make demands well beyond what republicans can accept. but obama has chosen the second path. two weeks ago, as soon as a group of republican and democratic senators joined forces behind a unified approach to immigration reform, obama signaled his support for it. and this week in urging congress not to allow the so-called sequestration process to force spending cuts, the white house said that obama's budget proposals to house speaker john boehner from 2011 were very much on the ta

washington. today, president obama readies his state of the union message, a chance to lay out details of an aggressive second-term agenda. >> our economy grows when everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody getting a fair shake and everybody playing by the same rules. >> a prequel with republican senator rand paul of kentucky, the tea party response to the president. and then an independent voice in a partisan senate. >> the fifth amendment is pretty clear. no deprivation of life, liberty or property without due process of law. and we're depriving american citizens of their life when we target them with drone attacks. >> senator an gus king of maine and former bush and obama defense secretary robert gates with the case for drones and the future of u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> i strongly believe 3,000 is too little. and 30,000 is too many. >> then our political panel on the state of the union watching and the new chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. plus, the high price of a penny. i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." joining me from his ho

parties working on some sort of bipartisan immigration bill. a copy of president obama's plan has been leaked. illegal immigrants would be allowed to become permanent residents of this country in eight years. marco rubio had this to say. the president bill would be dead on arrival in congress leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal immigration system for years to come. stephen moore joins us now from washington, d.c. do you think that the white house plan really does throw a wrench into reaching any kind of bipartisan agreement? >> i think this was a real setback. this is very delicate negotiations. you need to find a way to let more immigrants into this country. you need to have a way where people who have been here to have a path to legalization. it has to be coupled with tougher border security. everyone knows that. for some reason, the president is basically saying, we will not move forward with the border security, but we will with these other elements. i think that is a killer. i think marco rubio is right. dagen: why leak it in the first place? in washington, there

in 2015. >> president obama continue the tradition of taking part in a presuper bowl sunday interview and that is why he said women should be allowed in military combat role. >> women are in combat. they may not get treated as if they are but when they are in theater in places like iraq and afghanistan, they are vulnerable, they are wounded, and they have been killed. they have carried out their jobs with extraordinary patriotism and distinction. >> president obama's commends come after the pentagon announced last in they are opening up combat jobs to women. in the interview, the president said that gays should be allowed in the boy scouts, with the national executive board holding a meeting in texas to vote on lifting the ban. >> the u.s. postal service will release a stamp honoring civil rights pioneer rosa parks unveiled during a ceremony in detroit today. it would have been her 100th birthday today. she was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in alabama. she showed the defiance that became a symbol of the civil rights movement. >> it

-hour documentary and proud to say it was introduced by president obama. it was on cartoon network in career and yours for the download and i would like to show you one of the shorts that speaks specifically to what kids ask for which is show me what to do. in the television business we thought we knew what and kids ask that and we have the cartoon network and have the characters. we will do great animated shorts. we did pilots and tested them. kids watched them and i will never forget this as to say "you're tall but you're not that smart" and said slowly "you're talking to someone who is not clear --" those are cartoons. they're not real .". they wanted to real people and celebrities said they would love to participate. again we took celebrity spots out and kids said "first of all they're grownups and not that interesting and second of all they're celebrities and we have a cartoon "dude what happened" and those that missed it it's a junior myth busters and they set up situations. we will set up a scwaigz. let's see if we can float a voak beatle and that is the stock and trade. when t

president and millions of white folks turned barack obama into their own person cliff huxtable. >> anthony, do you agree with that? >> absolutely. i think especially we're talking about the whole big picture of hollywood and where we all work. on the surface, it's liberal. but when you look deeper than that, it's completely face value. and it's always an issue. and i think it's the consciousness that we need to continue to bring up and to discuss. that will only help us move forward. >> jamison, you made a point, we were talking about news. and i said if it's the black guy on the news on the weekend and i said, how many brown-skinned brothers do you see anchoring the news. and you said, what? >> one. one. just one. just you. just you. turn the channel. turn the channel, come back. you'll be right here. >> where's the arab guy? >> where's the arab guy? the arab anchor? seriously, dean, where's the arab anchor, the asian anchor, the hispanic anchor? where are the brown-skinned african-american news anchors? >> why does it matter on cnn? we've got sanjay, we've got you. it matters

it was the best award, was it presented by a movie star? no, it was presented by michelle obama followed by a piefl wrinkled laundry. [cheers and applause] [laughter] oh, and did mrs. obama give it to the most american movie "zero dark thirty"? no. wouldn't want to hon yort movie that killed bin land. her husband has to get all the credit for that. [ laughter ] we all know hollywood doesn't reward torture films because if they did, the winner would have been "battleship." no, no, last night the oscar goes to -- >> argo, congratulations. [cheers and applause] [laughter] >> stephen: big surprise, hollywood honors the film where hollywood is the hero. [laughter] and, folks, to have the first lady that is just big government out of control. [ laughter ] now the private sector can't even broadcast its own congrat latoury stroke fest without government intervengs. what is next: how much with win phoenix can eat during the ceremony? a ramp for jennifer lawrence? [laughter] this is just beginning. next summer the movie will be harry reid driving the speed limit. wreck it ravel was robbe

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what the obama could ministers also did in terms of playing from guam to deal with the north korean kim jong-il and the continuing under kim jong-un. this cycle was repeated obviously recently with the december 12, 2012, rocket launch that was successful, and it showed come in 10 straight for the first time critical technology for a long range missile. so why put a satellite into but the important of a builder is it demonstrate long range missile capacity. only eight months earlier, of course a similar rocket shattered over the oc so this was a significant stride forward for north korea military perspective. that was met with a unanimous resolution, 27 and the u.n. security council, which undertook a fair proportion response of targeted sanctions on the space agency and scientists, but it was met with disproportionate asymmetric threats out of north korea, and even though u.n. security council talk about a roadmap to get back to the six-party talks, they were obviously ignored a north korea now has gone ahead with a third nuclear test this month. this new provocations begins a new c

to summarily execute people by fire hey not a far cry from the obama administration that acts as judge jury and executioner so let's break that set. i. so did you happen to watch the state of the union address last night it pains me to say that i did. and never ceases to amaze me what an absolute dog and pony show the political system in this country really is and i don't want to use it barest to watch our representatives act like a bunch of groupies outside of a justin bieber concert i mean look at them they're all swooning getting autographs from obama or you know what he might just be signing off on another kill list right here but seriously though president obama did take the opportunity last night to make some very important declarations starting with afghanistan announcing that thirty four thousand u.s. troops will be coming home and next year the wolfish will be over great news don't get me wrong i just want the president to be clear that we're definitely point zero of our troops out from the country by twenty fourteen right. you know on twenty fourteen america's commitmen

far cry from the obama administration that acts as judge jury and executioner so let's break that set. i. did you happen to watch the state of the union address last night it pains me to say that i did. ever sees this to amaze me what an absolute dog and pony show the political system in this country really is and i don't want to use it barest to watch our representatives act like a bunch of groupies outside of a justin bieber concert i mean look at them they're all swooning getting autographs from obama or you know what he might just be signing off on another kill list right here but seriously though president obama did take the opportunity last night to make some very important declarations starting with afghanistan announcing that thirty four thousand u.s. troops will be coming home and next year the wolfish will be over great news don't get me wrong i just want the president to be clear that we're definitely point zero of our troops out from the country by twenty fourteen right. you know on twenty fourteen america's commitment to a unified and sovereign afghanistan will endure

the system but what about i mean the banks essentially own our i mean we saw bankers put obama in you're saying that there's too much regulation on the very banks that pretty much own the big organizations the big guys get a pass and that's part of the system right so they get loopholes and loopholes are created for them they write a lot of the regulations and they're able to game the system now i'm not saying that they should be regulated but i'm saying the way the system is set up is to benefit them and hurt the smaller players. disagree with you there why would they close down that office do you think that was kind of not doing anything i mean i know that they only met like four times in the last two years it was kind of a show anyway but i mean should they just maintain this illusion that they're at least trying to. maintain the illusion that well i mean we're only one month into the new term and why it was could have been done to the others and yet we see our shot of the original in time but it's funny because jeffrey immelt the head of general electric was put in the positio

saw bankers put obama and you're saying there's too much regulation on the very banks that pretty much own well the big part of our intentions the big guys get a pass and that's part of the system right so they get loopholes and loopholes are created for them they write a lot of the regulations and they're able to game the system now i'm not saying that they should be regulated but i'm saying the way the system is set up is to benefit them and hurt the smaller players. disagree with you there why would they close down that office do you think that was kind of not doing anything i mean i know that they only met like four times in the last two years it was kind of a show anyway but i mean should they just maintain this illusion that they're at least trying to. maintain the illusion that well i mean we're good we're only one month into the new term. could've been done to the others and yet we shot it was a long time but it's funny because jeffrey immelt the head of general electric was put in the position there's nobody probably who's who's benefited greater from government or just than h

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our i mean we saw bankers put obama in you're saying that there's too much regulation on the very banks that pretty much own well the big organizations the big guys get a pass and that's part of the system right so they get loopholes and loopholes are created for them they write a lot of the regulations and they're able to game the system now i'm not saying that they should be regulated but i'm saying the way the system is set up is to benefit them and hurt the smaller players. disagree with you there why would they close down that office do you think that was kind of not doing anything i mean i know that they only met like four times in the last two years it was kind of a show anyway but i mean should they just maintain this illusion that they're at least trying to. maintain the illusion that well i mean we're good we're only one month into the new term. could've been done to the others and yet we shot it was a long time but it's funny because jeffrey immelt the head of general electric was put in the position there's nobody probably who's who's benefited greater from government

bankers put obama in you're saying that there's too much regulation on the very banks that pretty much own the big organizations the big guys get a pass and that's part of the system right so they get loopholes and loopholes are created for them they write a lot of the regulations and they're able to game the system now i'm not saying that they should be regulated but i'm saying the way the system is set up is to benefit them and hurt the smaller players. disagree with you there why would they close down that office you think that was kind of not doing anything i mean i know that they only met like four times in the last two years it was kind of a show anyway but i mean should they just maintain this illusion that they're at least trying to. maintain the illusion that well i mean we're only one month into the new term. could've been done to the others and yet we see our shot of the original in time but it's funny because jeffrey immelt the head of general electric was put in the position there's nobody probably who's who's benefited greater from government large us than him he has all

just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes and everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean i have my hands at ten pounds i know that i'm sitting really messed up . in the old story so personally apologize if. the worst you were going through the white house or the. radio guy minestrone cricket. club or a politician did you ever seen anything like this until the. greens earthlings i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so today is secretary of state hillary clinton's last day on the job i know i'm sad to call her farewell happens to fall in the same day a suicide bomber detonated explosive device outside the entrance to the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital amman carra secretary clinton's last months in office or been subjected to scrutiny of the attack

for people. why? >> absolutely. for two reasons, ali. first of all, president obama is in the sweet spot of his presidency, the moment of maximum leverage that occurs for a president right after re-election. basically around 18 months at the start of a second term where a president can push through almost anything he wants. second of all, he's positioned to pull a nixon in china. just as only a committed anti-communist like nixon could go to china, someone like a pragmatic aggressive like president obama could appeal to his base and still get tough entitlement cuts through as part of a grand bargain. this is a moment of rare opportunity but it takes presidential leadership and that, frankly, has been lacking. >> one approach that republicans have put forward is the idea of a balanced budget amendment. >> the real cause of our debt is that our government has been spending $1 trillion more than it takes in every year. that's why we need a balanced budget amendment. >> republicans, margaret, are not blameless in this, bush era tax cuts, wars in afghanistan and iraq are major drivers. t

, president obama admitted the cuts were a really bad idea. what the president failed to mention is that the sequester was his idea and his administration during the dead limit negotiate. >> and president obama failed to mention the sequester, he made another pitch for the higher minimum wage and cutting the budget in general and can't allow huge cuts in social security and medicare. >> and that would force our senior citizens and working families to bear the burden of deficit reduction and others nothing more. >> and even with the looming crisis, congress is taking the next week off. >> kelly: thank you. >> congress can figure out a responsible way to deal with the looming financial crisis. angela mcglowan, and penny lee, joining me for this beautiful afternoon, ladies. >> thank you. >> we're not hearing any talk of compromise for a 11th hour deal being worked out. what are the consequences here and who will face the brunt of this, penny? >> well, unfortunately right now we're at a time in washington they don't face the crisis until it's absolutely the 11th hour. we see this time a

i mean the banks essentially own our i mean we saw bankers put obama in you're saying that there's too much regulation on the very banks that pretty much own the big organizations the big guys get a pass and that's part of the system right so they get loopholes and loopholes are created for them they write a lot of the regulations and they're able to game the system now i'm not saying that they should be regulated but i'm saying the way the system is set up is to benefit them and hurt the smaller players. disagree with you there why would they close down that office you think that was kind of not doing anything i mean i know that they only met like four times in the last two years it was kind of a show anyway but i mean should they just maintain this illusion that they're at least trying to. maintain the illusion that well i mean we're good we're only one month into the new term. could've been done to the others and yeah we should try to do is a long time but it's funny because jeffrey immelt the head of general electric was put in the position there's nobody probably who's who's b

will continue doing that in conclusion let me quote president obama in his inauguration address he sent there the united states will seek to resolve differences with other states peacefully not because they are naive but because journal work cooperation is the best even with the tool to address the fears and prevention of this approach based on international law is the one were taken by russia in its foreign policy and we count on your reciprocity thank you very much like thousand thank you very much mr minister space up before inviting burnous ashton to speak to us let me also give you a first question from the stack the already received this is a question as by a member of the. german parliament. new me from the green party. his question is where is the russian red line. in case of the use of chemical weapons in syria question mark. well i believe the red line is the common line for all of us we are categorically against any use of weapons of mass destruction bede chemical b. biological b. nuclear and we are very seriously engaged in daily efforts in coordination with the nearly

i mean the banks essentially own our i mean we saw bankers put obama in you're saying that there's too much regulation on the very banks that pretty much own the big part of allegations the big guys get a pass and that's part of the system right so they get loopholes and loopholes are created for them they write a lot of the regulations and they're able to game the system now i'm not saying that they should be regulated but i'm saying the way the system is set up is to benefit them and hurt the smaller players. disagree with you there why would they close down that office do you think that was kind of not doing anything i mean i know that they only met like four times in the last two years it was kind of a show anyway but i mean should they just maintain this illusion that they're at least trying to. maintain the illusion that well i mean we're good we're only one month into the new term. could've been done to the others and yeah we shot of the original in time but it's funny because jeffrey immelt the head of general electric was put in the position there's nobody probably who's w

discover how bad obama care is and when obama care starts bankrupting state governments, i think you're going to see a huge rebellion against this president and his policies. >> but when -- when are they going to figure that out, senator? we've been talking about obama care for a long time now, and it's already costing businesses, you know, enormous amounts of money and stopping them from hiring any new headsed to the payroll so when are we going to figure this out in your view? when do you think that happens? >> when republicans begin to present our message better and we tell people whether you're rich, poor or middle class you'll have more jobs and more money if we leave money in your state, leave money in your pocket and that's how the economy will grow. when people figure that out, i think they will come back to the republican party, but they also have to see that what he's planning for us is -- it is bankrupting us as we speak. we're borrowing $50,000 a second and it can't go on. >> i didn't know it was a second. >> let me ask you about one other issue before we let you go.

something like this to happen based on the fear mongering that we're seeing toward robert miral or obama saying that we're supposed to encounter the next cyber pearl harbor by nine eleven and cyber anything yet it's. all going rather well i don't need to do you there this is a gauge to the cyber war is that other countries are right being hit by hackers from iran and allegedly happens from china these are real things and we are also hacking these places where you are sending cyber when you when you send it to cyber don we are we are screwing around with with with around and this is this is what actually makes me skeptical is that unlike a real terrorist attack the government can just say you know we were hit with a cyber attack and now we're going to pass this legislation i mean it's so ambiguous and really they can say anything and use it as a justification to push through really harsh cyber legislation which we know that they want to do but talk about who's who's resisting you know you should actually really good because it's clear that there's a reasonable congress could have a reason

on the fear mongering that we're seeing toward robert miral or obama saying that we're supposed to encounter the next cyber pearl harbor by nine eleven and cyber anything yet it's all. going rather well i don't need to do you think this is a gauge to the cyber war is that other countries are right being hit by hackers from iran and allegedly happens from china these are real things and we are also hacking these places where you are sending cyber and what do you send it to cyber don. we're screwing around with with with around this is this is what actually makes me skeptical is that unlike a real terrorist attack the government can just say you know we were hit with a cyber attack and are going to pass this legislation i mean it's so ambiguous and really they can say anything and use it as a justification to push through really harsh cyber legislation which we know that they want to do but talk about who's who's resisting you know you should actually really good because it's clear that there's a reasonable congress can have a reasonable suspicion about what you're gauging on line yo